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Joseph_de_Maistre — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:20:11 -0400

You make a good point, captainjack, that a lot of people grease the system with a few bucks and also seem to be able to evade penalties for their egregious behavior behind the wheel. I lot of it, I think, is outright bribery but a lot is also just the extended good old boy network and the wish of judges and some law enforcement personnel to have a "friendly reputation" The N&O did a terrific series about a year ago looking into people with long records of DWI and speeding at very high speeds, some cases in excess of 100 mph and never being seriously punished. I expected that there would be a huge public outcry. It seems that there is a substantial portion of our fellow citizens and voters who favor a lax system for fear that they themselves might be inconvenienced by serious law enforcement. It is a very depressing commentary on who we are as a people and what kind of a community we want to live in.

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captainjack — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:56:15 -0400

I don't think he is getting special treatment. Around my county there are plenty of people who get recurring DUI's and are still on the roads. Our laws don't treat it too seriously. Spend some money and you are back behind the wheel in no time at all. I know of one guy who had his license permanently revoked. He does powerwashing. I see his truck go by about once a week. He's driving of course. The local police tell me they have arrested him so much they are tired. He has been scheduled to go off to prison but never seems to get around to it. And this is no joke! The joke is our treatment of drunk drivers. No one gets too serious about it until a family member gets killed or maimed.

If our laws were "tough," do you really think that the newspapers would publish long lists of people charged every day? I think it is called the "revolving door."

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Flowerpower — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:34:52 -0400

Well, it's HIS liver, not mine.

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erin12 — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:48:47 -0400

This one????? Do you think this one is an anomaly? This one simply took his arrogance to the extreme, the arrogance dwells in all of them.

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Joseph_de_Maistre — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:36:56 -0400

I would love to see this arrogant, boozy piece of human waste in an orange jumpsuit. (I hope if he does kill someone -- which seems likely -- that the N&O will do a story with the photographs of each and every person in law enforcement who gave this scumbag a free pass.)

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ActLocal — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:44:47 -0400

Those "CHAMPAGNE" signs will get you every time!

WTF?

baldezar — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:50:30 -0400

How does a drunk driver get a ticket instead of being hauled off to jail? He AND the deputy should be investigated.

Allred needs time in the slammer

Real_Americans_Think — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:21:25 -0400

If he smelled of alcohol, why wasn't he subjected to a breathalyzer test? When are state troopers and other law enforcement going to enforce the law? Allred needs to be thrown in jail. The special treatment of Allred by law enforcement is sickening.

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Crudeoil — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:16:24 -0400

WATCH OUT TROOPER/S, YOU MESS WITH THE WRONG PEOPLE IN THIS STATE AND EVEN THOUGH THEY SMILE AND ACT NICE I CAN PROMISE YOU THEY WOULD MAKE A BOSTON MOBSTER BLUSH!

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watching — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:52:14 -0400

Allred needs to have his license revoked before he kills himself or someone else. He needs AA treatment, too!

He may think all of this is funny, but I don't. A man his age should be thinking of where he is going to be spending eternity instead of being "liquored" up. Where is his family when all of this occurs?

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ladyknowall — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:49:48 -0400

Pajamma Pants?

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j1c2kp — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:21:40 -0400

Did the deputy really write, 'champagne signs'. Did anyone test the deputy?

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ktuscan — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:17:25 -0400

This is an embarrassment. Between this and the Guv scandal -- just the latest black eye that we average folks suffer at the hands of our esteemed leaders. It is just too bad that average folks cannot serve.

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SonofWS — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:10:43 -0400

Wonder how much blood was in his alcohol stream........

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AgentPierce — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:53:29 -0400

Cary Allred is permanently pickled. His blood is 99% Ancient Age.

Enough Allred-y

markjohnson — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:34:59 -0400

Former Rep. Cary Allred has had a bit of trouble with driving, the smell of alcohol and the law, once again.

An Alamance County Sheriff's deputy ticketed Allred for reckless driving on June 7, six days after he resigned from the legislature over his conduct at an April session of the House, the Burlington Times-News reports. The report filed by the sergeant from the sheriff's office recounts that he smelled alcohol when he spoke with Allred, who appeared to be wearing pajama pants at 6:45 p.m.

Back on April 27, Allred was stopped by a state trooper for driving 102 mph en route to that evening's House session. He was later ticketed. A report by the House sergeant-at-arms of that evening's session included the accounts of several Republican legislators who said they smelled alcohol on Allred's breath and saw him give an inappropriately long hug to a teenage page from his district. He resigned after the report was released.

In the more recent incident, Allred was observed speeding and weaving off the road and across the center line in a 1955, or 1957 depending on whose description is correct, red Ford Thunderbird. The sheriff's deputy wrote that he recognized Allred from his "political champagne signs."